Pilgrimages

Are pilgrimages realistic in a modern world? How far do you go to make it a pilgrimage? To me, I always thought of a pilgrimage as a trip of great distance, like to Jerusalem. Last year, we began to explore the idea of a trip to the EWTN headquarters. The information we found specifically referred to people who make pilgrimages there.

To be purely technical, it would probably be safe to say any journey with the specific expectation of religious or spiritual growth or enlightenment would be a pilgrimage. I am just not convinced it is a pilgrimage for me to travel to New Ulm. Whether it is a pilgrimage or not, I feel spiritually reconnected having spent some time at the Way of the Cross and in the Chapel there.